Comparison

Idle War.app vs WizUp!

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Idle War.app

An incremental empire-building game where you conquer territories, manage resources, and upgrade your empire. Progress even while offline with automated features and discover new maps and challenges.

Highlights
  • Army generation and upgrades
  • Resource mining and smelting
  • Item crafting with recipes
  • Territory conquest and bonuses
  • Technology upgrades
  • Artifact discovery and upgrades
  • Advancement Points for permanent boosts
  • Auto-play features
Features
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Conquer the world while you sleep! War.app (previously known as Warzone) is an innovative incremental game that puts you in charge of an empire. As you use your armies to conquer neighboring territories, you'll discover tons of exciting assets you can use to strengthen your empire further. • Army camps generate armies continuously. You can capture more and upgrade them. Use your armies to conquer territories on the map to discover more things to help you. • Mines generate ores continuously, such as copper ore, tin ore, etc. You can upgrade them to produce more. • Smelters work continuously to smelt your ore into bars. Bars can be sold for more than the ore it took to make it. • Crafters work continuously to turn your smelted bars into items, such as copper bars into copper wire. • Find recipes on the map to unlock additional things your smelters and crafters can do. • Find caches on the map to give you an injection of free armies, money, or resources. • Technologies can be purchased to turn your items into useful bonuses, such as increasing army camps, better smelters, or drafting armies. • Regions of the map are separate into bonuses. Conquer an entire bonus to unlock sources of money, or other assets. • Mercenary Camps lets you hire armies to grow even faster. • Hospitals allow you to save armies when conquering territories. They can be upgraded to save even more. • Find a dig site and start digging for artifacts, which are permanent upgrades to fuel your empire. Artifacts can be upgraded by sacrificing ones you don't need. • Complete an entire map and you will earn Advancement Points (AP). These can be spent on Advancements which give you permanent upgrades, such as improving army camps, mines, sell prices, drafts, etc. • By default, you can accrue two hours of idle time. The Max Idle Time advancement can upgrade this time to any value, and you can also find artifacts that increase it. • Auto-advancements help you out by playing the game for you. For example, auto-conquer automatically conquers territories on the map, auto-sell automatically sells resources you don't need, auto-draft automatically picks up drafts, etc. Getting all of them can completely automate the game. • Over 30 maps are available, covering all parts of the world as well as fictional places. If you complete them all you can Ascend. • Powers can be used to accelerate your empire. Find them on the map, get them from the daily bonus, or spin the War.app Wheel to win powers or coins. • The multi-level power or advancement allow playing multiple levels at the same time. This is an effective way to boost your progression. • Find Arenas to compete against other War.app players in a strategic battle. The winner will get additional armies, money, and resources to fuel their empire. • Compete against up to 30 other players in a chaotic Battle Royale multi-player mode! Launch attacks against others and see who comes out on top! • Fight against an AI in challenges for additional AP, if your advancements and artifacts are strong enough to out-expand them. • Join a clan and compete in Clan Wars! • Participate in global or clan chat rooms built into the app • Earn and complete all of the achievements! Terms of service: https://war.app/TermsOfService

About

WizUp!

An incremental idle game where players manage resources, defeat enemies, and purchase upgrades to grow their wizard's power. Features unique mechanics like awakening and balancing power allocation for continuous progression.

Highlights
  • Incremental idle gameplay
  • Resource management
  • Upgrade system
  • Prestige mechanics
  • Unique awakening system
  • Orb of Power allocation
  • Ring upgrades
Features
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WizUp! is a wizard idle / incremental / resource management game: kill enemies, collect resources, purchase upgrades, prestige, and repeat! Start slow and grow stronger, and play at your own pace! Discover over 45 different resources, upgrades, and items with unique mechanics. Here are some of the mechanics you will discover along the way: -Awaken to earn Paradox Anchors, which can be shattered to obtain Mirrors of Sight, which can be shattered to obtain Mirrors of Remembrance to boost your Global Storage! -Balance the allocation of your Orbs of Power in order to increase your Rune Drop Chance, your Damage, your XP Gain, and your Chaotic Essence Production! -Upgrade over 10 unique Rings, such as the Ring of Stars ("The Stars send you aid"), which gives you 1 Star Seed every time your Wizard dies! No ads or in-app-purchases! :-D

Screenshots

Idle War.app4 screens
WizUp!1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Idle War.app at Free against WizUp!'s $4.99. Idle War.app also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.9) and ratings volume (148 vs 14). WizUp!'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 27) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Idle War.app is free to download; WizUp! costs $4.99 up front. Idle War.app sells 27 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. WizUp! asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Idle War.app holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Idle War.app has 148 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Idle War.app's written reviews are positive against 50% of WizUp!'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Idle War.app ships an update every 2 months, WizUp! every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Idle War.app versus WizUp!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIdle War.appWizUp!
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.7 (148 ratings) — better3.9 (14 ratings)
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings148 — better14
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size277 MB207 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperRandy FickerTopCog LLC

Customer experience

Idle War.app

All ratings148 ratings
Positive91.9%
Neutral0.7%
Negative7.4%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral6.7%
Negative33.3%

WizUp!

All ratings14 ratings
Positive64.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative35.7%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative37.5%

In-app purchases

27 purchases

Idle War.app

Subscriptions1
  • Idle Premium$8.991 Month
One-time26
  • Day against Nuclear Tests$2.99
  • Mothers Day Bundle$3.99
  • Father's Day Bundle$3.99
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  • 500 Coins$5.99
  • Super Camp$9.99
  • 1,000 Coins$9.99
  • Spring Bundle$9.99
  • Cyber Monday Bundle$9.99
  • Summer Solstice Bundle$9.99
  • Holiday Bundle$14.99
  • New Years Bundle$14.99
  • January Jumpstart Bundle$14.99
  • World Kindness Day Bundle$14.99
  • Autumn Bundle$14.99
  • International Day of Peace$14.99
  • World Chess Day Bundle$14.99
  • World Environment Day Bundle$14.99
  • Day of Human Spaceflight$19.99
  • World Water Day Bundle$19.99
  • Summer Sale$19.99
  • 2,500 Coins$23.99
  • Birthday Bundle$29.99
  • Valentine's Day Sale$29.99
  • Auto Artifact Swapper$34.99
  • 5,000 Coins$46.99
  • 10,000 Coins$89.99
None

WizUp!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Idle War.app free?
Idle War.app is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is WizUp! free?
WizUp! costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Idle War.app or WizUp!?
Idle War.app is rated higher. Idle War.app averages 4.7 out of 5 from 148 ratings, while WizUp! averages 3.9 from 14 ratings.
Do Idle War.app or WizUp! have ads?
Neither Idle War.app nor WizUp! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Idle War.app or WizUp!?
Idle War.app ships an update every 2 months, and WizUp! every 5 days. Most recently, Idle War.app was updated on October 21, 2026 and WizUp! on October 25, 2026.

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